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• Lion Of The Desert | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Destined to remain a dubious footnote in books of movie trivia, Lion of the Desert--an occasionally impressive epic from 1981--was financed with a budget of $35 million by Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, who previously attempted the role of movie producer with the critically roasted Mohammad: Messenger of God. This effort didn't fare much better (it grossed approximately $1 million worldwide), and although some of its wartime action sequences are intelligently filmed, it's not likely to gain much more of a reputation on home video. Under a shaggy Muslim beard, Anthony Quinn stars as Omar Mukhtar, the Arab hero and guerrilla fighter who defended Libya against Benito Mussolini and Italy's attempted conquests during World War II. As straightforward biography, the movie's got an admirable epic sweep, but a cliché-ridden script and uniformly bad performances (from a cast that includes John Gielgud, Oliver Reed and Rod Steiger) make this little more than a curiosity for those wanting to learn more about Libyan history. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• For the Love of Ada - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles star as two senior citizens who fall in love in this gentle sitcom, written by Vince Powell and Harry Driver (Nearest and Dearest, Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width). Produced by Ronnie Baxter and boasting theme music by Ron Grainer, this release contains the complete third series, also featuring appearances by Mollie Sugden, Edwin Richfield and Harold Goodwin.Londoner Ada and Yorkshireman Walter - the gravedigger who buried Ada's first husband - have returned from their honeymoon to begin their new life together as a married couple. But, like many married couples, they quickly realise that you can never really get to know a person until you live with them...

• Revanche | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Sparkle | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £2.19   |  Saving you £10.80 (83.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Glitter of Success Couldn't Hide How They Got There. Three soulful sisters rise out of Harlem to become music's hottest singing group in this rags-to-riches tale of glitz glamour and the high price of fame. Against the vibrant grooves of Curtis Mayfield these divas explode onto the scene with off-the-hook harmonies and a sexy style that catapult them to superstardom - but not every fairytale has a happy ending. When success leads to excess one sister's star will fade while another's will sparkle. Starring Academy Award-winner Irene Cara (Fame Flashdance) Lonette McKee (ATL Round Midnight) Dwan Smith and Philip Michael Thomas this inspiring story of struggle and hope is guaranteed to put a song in your heart.

• The Grissom Gang | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Grissom Gang is director Robert Aldrich's take on British author James Hadley Chase's once-notorious novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish, which was itself a synthesis of the plot of William Faulkner's Sanctuary with the lurid exposes of the criminal rampage of Arizona Clark "Ma" Barker and her alleged criminal brood. Aldrich sticks surprisingly close to Chase's plot, although he considerably deepens all the characterisations and cuts through the prurient sex sensation to create a surprisingly moving and complicated relationship between kidnapped heiress Barbara Blandish (Kim Darby) and the homicidally psychopathic but also childish Slim Grissom (Scott Wilson), the most feared member of the gang headed by the grotesquely horrible Ma (Irene Dailey). Barbara is abducted after a jewel heist gone wrong by a trio of inept small-timers, who are swiftly rubbed out by the more organised Grissom mob, and though Ma insists that after the girl's father has come across with the million-dollar ransom she will be mercilessly put down, Slim becomes enchanted with the girl, who eventually becomes his lover. In the book, the girl was drugged and raped, but here we get a delicate, creepy shifting of power to the point when Miss Blandish can browbeat her fearsome captor into mixing her a perfect martini, and the new attachment between crook and captive creates a rift with the rest of the gang that inevitably pays off in various hails of machine gunfire as the plan falls apart and the authorities close in. Aldrich manages the kind of claustrophobic black comedy games of terror and flirtation he perfected in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, but attacks the rat-tat-tat tommy gun scenes with action skills honed on The Dirty Dozen. Most of these films trusted costumes, cars and music to evoke the 1920s, but screenwriter Leon Griffiths takes care with period slang and the supporting cast have a real Depression era Warner Brothers feel, with Connie Stevens as a dumb but ferocious blonde showgirl, Tony Musante as the slick-haired official ladykiller in the gang and Robert Lansing as an impeccably down-at-heel but compassionate private detective. On the DVD: The advertised extras--notes, trivia and photo gallery--are disappointingly thin, but the 16:9 letterboxed print is almost flawless, with lovely pastels for the clothes and sets and bright scarlet for the many bursts of blood. --Kim Newman

• Lost In Yonkers | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The screenplay of 'Lost In Yonkers' is adapted by Neil Simon from his own stage-play. In the summer of 1942 two brothers are sent to live with their strict grandmother in New York when their mother dies. Everything starts to look up though when Uncle Louie (Richard Dreyfuss) arrives...

• Into the West: The Miniseries | Blu Ray | (30/09/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bride Of Re-Animator | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £10.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney

• The Beverley Hillbillies - Vol. 1 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £18.03   |  Saving you £-13.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Clampetts Strike Oil: The very first episode in which Jed shoots his way to a $25 million fortune and switches his one room cabin for a 35 room mansion. Getting Settled:The clampetts arrive in Beverley Hills and are mistaken for servants at their new mansion. Meanwhile Back At The Cabin: The Clampetts struggle to swap the convenience of their old mountain cabin for the luxuries to be found at their new mansion. The Clampetts Meet Mrs Drysdale: Bank C

• Imagining Argentina | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £11.60   |  Saving you £-1.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A theatre director must rely on his imagination when his wife becomes one of the 'disappeared' during the political upheavals of 1970s Argentina.

• Le Grande Voyage | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £16.20   |  Saving you £3.79 (19.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Destiny takes in India after saving him from a queer bashing and together with other 'rainbow child' Lester they live together and become a family. After working all day to put food on the table Destiny gets dragged up with her silver pistol and patrols the streets of West Hollywood protecting her 'children' from the straight jocks who bash gays for a rush. Against this unconventional but fully functional queer family will India find true love or forever be a cute one night stan

• The Beverly Hillbillies Collection - Vol. 9 | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £22.06   |  Saving you £-17.07 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Episodes include: The Clampett Look:Dressed as hillbillies Cynthia Fenwick and her mother call on the Clampetts thinking they are the new avant-garde social leaders. Jethro's First Love: Jethro's new love interest is a brassy burlesque dancer Chickadee Laverne. Chickadee Returns: Jethro and Chickadee's relationship moves on to the next level - they want to marry. The Clampetts Are Overdrawn: Jed receives the news that his multi-million dollar accoun

• Criterion Collection: Red Shoes | Blu Ray | (20/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Studio Classic: Classic Award Winners | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £22.93   |  Saving you £12.06 (52.59%)   |  RRP £34.99

  All About Eve (Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950): From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door Eve Horrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davies). The cunning Eve manoeuvres her way into Margo's Broadway role becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend (Gary Merrill) her playwright (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife (Celeste Holm). Only

• Arachnia | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (59.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Professor of paleontology Dr. Jonathan Mugford and a small crew of students on their way to an Arizona dig survive a plane crash caused by a meteor shower only to make a mean discovery of their own - mammoth spiders! The same meteorite that grounded their plane has scared up an ancient breed of over-sized insects' and they're hatching a plan of attack. Hungry and desperate to find a live host in which to lay their eggs the situation is fraught with terrifying possibilities. The

• That Certain Age | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £6.48   |  Saving you £8.50 (189.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Fullerton's an affluent middle class American family have the balance of their lifestyle upset when young Alice Fullerton falls in love with a talented news reporter invited to lodge in their house. Despite the efforts of her mother father boyfriend and even the reporter himself nothing can deter the girl of a certain age from her heart's desire.

• Penny Serenade | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £12.88   |  Saving you £-7.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Newspaperman Roger Adams (Cary Grant) falls for record store worker Julie Gardiner Adams (Irene Dunne) and the pair marry on New Year's Eve shortly before Roger leaves for a new job in Tokyo. His new wife joins him three months later and announces she is pregnant but a major earthquake in Tokyo leads to her losing the baby and unable to bear anymore. The pair eventually return to America where Roger buys a small country newspaper and Roger and Julie begin the process of adopting a

• Come Play With Me | DVD | (22/11/1999) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• AKKORDE DER LIEBE/PENNY S - MO | Blu Ray | (06/10/2017) from £11.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Play Misty for Me | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £9.60   |  Saving you £0.38 (5.75%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Clint Eastwood (making his very assured directorial debut) is a poetry-spouting stud-muffin DJ stalked by a maniacally amorous fan after a misguided one-night stand in this enjoyably schlocky, undeniably effective film about good intentions gone murderously wacky. Although many of the very 1970s trappings presented here may ultimately be too dated to be taken seriously (including a highly self-indulgent jazz number and a hilariously gooey seduction number between Eastwood and Donna Mills), the core premise of infatuation taken out of bounds remains uncomfortably plausible--and was influential enough to be appropriated by one of the biggest hits of the 1980s. (Here's a hint--it starred Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and a very unfortunate bunny rabbit.) A well-staged and occasionally very frightening thriller worth watching for Jessica Walter's peerlessly unhinged performance alone. Frequent Eastwood collaborator Don Siegel (director of Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff and The Beguiled, to name but a few) has a nice cameo as Murphy, the moustachioed, chess-playing bartender. --Andrew Wright, Amazon.com